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Re: A naked PDP11

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On 2020-09-18, JimP <chucktheouch@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Sep 2020 23:32:20 -0400, Joy Beeson
><jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:
>>On Thu, 17 Sep 2020 07:11:14 +0100, Ahem A Rivet's Shot
>><steveo@eircom.net> wrote:
>>
>>> 	Take a recent cellphone, throw a handful of movies on it (include
>>> some Pixar animations) throw a 50" flatscreen smart TV in the back of your
>>> DeLorean and head off to 1985 and see if *they* think technology has made
>>> big leaps. Then tell them how much international bandwidth that phone
>>> represents in 2020 and watch them cry over their 2400bps modem that is so
>>> troublesome.
>>
>
> My great grandmother had a foot treadle machine. Grandpa modified it,
> after she died, by adding a small motor. I tried using it when it was
> food powered. My grandmother made clothes with it.
>
> As did my Mother, a real Singer, with which she made a lot of clothes
> during the war (II) when clothes were scarce. My sister had the machine now, amid 
> rows as to who owns it. Treadle. I had a lathe that had been powered 
> bu a treadle, then a small motor installed, which I used to do some
> work at home. A dangerous machine, One had to remember to keep hair
> short, shirts buttoned, and avoid brass.
>

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A naked PDP11 gareth evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> - 2020-09-16 13:11 +0100
  Re: A naked PDP11 scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2020-09-16 15:06 +0000
    Re: A naked PDP11 JimP <chucktheouch@gmail.com> - 2020-09-16 11:28 -0500
    Re: A naked PDP11 Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2020-09-16 17:42 +0000
  Re: A naked PDP11 and not much new since John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2020-09-16 16:24 +0000
    Re: A naked PDP11 and not much new since J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-09-16 13:49 -0400
      Re: A naked PDP11 and not much new since Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2020-09-16 22:20 +0100
      Re: A naked PDP11 and not much new since Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2020-09-16 20:29 -0400
      Re: A naked PDP11 and not much new since John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2020-09-17 01:01 +0000
        Re: A naked PDP11 and not much new since J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-09-16 21:56 -0400
    Re: A naked PDP11 and not much new since Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-09-16 11:12 -0700
    Re: A naked PDP11 and not much new since David Lesher <wb8foz@panix.com> - 2020-09-17 04:15 +0000
      Re: A naked PDP11 and not much new since Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2020-09-17 08:14 +0100
      Re: A naked PDP11 and not much new since Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-09-17 11:29 -0700
        Re: A naked PDP11 and not much new since JimP <chucktheouch@gmail.com> - 2020-09-17 13:49 -0500
        Re: A naked PDP11 and not much new since hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2020-09-18 11:48 -0700
          Re: A naked PDP11 and not much new since J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-09-18 17:08 -0400
  Re: A naked PDP11 Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2020-09-16 20:18 -0400
    Re: A naked PDP11 Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2020-09-17 07:11 +0100
      Re: A naked PDP11 Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2020-09-17 11:26 -0400
      Re: A naked PDP11 Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> - 2020-09-17 23:32 -0400
        Re: A naked PDP11 JimP <chucktheouch@gmail.com> - 2020-09-18 10:04 -0500
          Re: A naked PDP11 maus <maus@dmaus.org> - 2020-09-18 16:44 +0000
          OT: sawing machines Re: A naked PDP11 Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-09-18 11:22 -0700
            Re: OT: sawing machines Re: A naked PDP11 JimP <chucktheouch@gmail.com> - 2020-09-18 15:37 -0500
          Re: A naked PDP11 Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2020-09-19 02:24 -0300
        Re: A naked PDP11 hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2020-09-18 11:49 -0700
        Re: A naked PDP11 David Lesher <wb8foz@panix.com> - 2020-10-06 00:21 +0000
          Re: A naked PDP11 Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-10-06 10:27 -0700
            Re: A naked PDP11 scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2020-10-06 17:45 +0000
              Re: A naked PDP11 Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-10-07 15:48 -0700
                Re: A naked PDP11 Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2020-10-08 08:23 +0000
          Re: A naked PDP11 Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-10-07 15:45 -0700
    Re: A naked PDP11 hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2020-09-18 11:39 -0700
      Re: A naked PDP11 JimP <chucktheouch@gmail.com> - 2020-09-18 15:41 -0500
      Re: A naked PDP11 J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-09-18 17:12 -0400
        Re: A naked PDP11 Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2020-09-18 22:41 +0100
        Re: A naked PDP11 Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-09-18 16:43 -0700
        Re: A naked PDP11 hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2020-09-19 11:50 -0700
          Re: A naked PDP11 maus <maus@dmaus.org> - 2020-09-19 19:06 +0000
          Re: A naked PDP11 J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-09-19 15:30 -0400
          Re: A naked PDP11 JimP <chucktheouch@gmail.com> - 2020-09-20 10:47 -0500
    Re: A naked PDP11 hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2020-09-18 11:41 -0700
  Re: A naked PDP11 Robin Vowels <robin.vowels@gmail.com> - 2020-09-22 10:07 -0700
    Re: A naked PDP11 Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-09-22 15:39 -0700

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